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Lord Coe’s Olympic legacy dreams probably didn’t include Tom Daley training celebrities for a game show, but it’s good viewing

It would be easy to micturate from a great height – the ten-metre board, in
fact – on Splash!, television’s latest
sleb-under-pressure talent contest. It would be easier, certainly, than
emulating the palm-moistening, trunk-filling leaps into the Luton swimming
pool that the novice divers did live on Saturday. But beware. Celebrity
Splash has been a rating smash in Netherlands, whence it originates, and
the American ABC network has picked up the format. Saturday’s British
debut demonstrated why.

Admittedly, it had a terrible start. Professional divers leapt into the water
to music at a rate beyond the cameras’ capacity to keep up. Of